A year after independence, continuing tension with the North is not the only challenge facing South Sudan. From the uncertain fate of the disputed territory of Abyei and cross-border inter-communal conflicts, to a lack of economic infrastructure and food insecurity, combined with a persistent failure to build successful institutions, South Sudan’s beginning as an independent state is rife with dangers.
Journal Articles
Assessing Regional and International Organizations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context
This special issue of Civil Wars on “Assessing Regional and International Organisations’ Interventions in Civil Wars: Capabilities and Context” includes a range of case studies on the United Nations, NATO, the European Union, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the African Union, and the Organisation of American States. Each case study features a presentation and analysis of empirical data in two dimensions: the organization’s general capabilities to carry out intervention in civil wars and, specific to one particular intervention, the conflict context in which it happened.
A resolvable frozen conflict? Designing a settlement for Transnistria
This article analyses a range of existing proposals that reflect the Moldovan, Russian/Transnistrian, and Mediators’ positions to date and proposes a framework in which these proposals, and the relative consensus they exhibit, can be accommodated.
Can Forced Population Transfers Resolve Self-determination Conflicts?
In how far can ethnic cleansing and its consequences contribute to the internal stability and external security of the states affected by such demographic changes? Following a conceptual clarification of forced population transfers, a number of cases of forced...
Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe: Accommodation through De-ethnicisiation?
Published in JEMIE – Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe in 2002, this article engages with Will Kymlicka's ideas of exporting liberal pluralism and explores the contemporary nature of ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe. It examines the...
The German Question Continued? Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic since 1990
Published in German Politics in 2002, this article argues that, although it has often been reduced to the issue of the reunification of the two German states, the so-called German question continued to be a multi-dimensional phenomenon after 1945. This is most obvious...
The Peace Process in Northern Ireland since 1998: Success or Failure of Post-agreement Reconstruction?
Published in Civil Wars in 2002, this article argues that the key to the long-term stability of peace settlements is the ability of political leaders to change the social organisation and execution of power from force/violence-centred structures to those of consensual...
Conflict Management in Northern Ireland
Published in the UNESCO Diversities (vol. 4, no. 1, 2002) and subsequently re-printed in Democracy and Human Rights in Multicultural Societies (ed. by Matthias Koenig and Paul de Guchteneire, Routledge, 2007), this essay analyses the different policies employed by the...
Bilateral Ethnopolitics after the Cold War
Using the relationship between Hungary and Slovakia as a case study, this article discusses the problems associated with ‘bilateral’ ethnopolitics in the context of cross‐border minority situations. It starts by outlining a theoretical framework for such an analysis,...